Tengu's Profile

[URL=http://io9.com/the-kubo-and-the-two-strings-trailer-features-stop-moti-1747567175[/URL] Aside from I have trouble with a samurai playing the samsien...it looks pretty good. And its `mostly` stop motion...

There are several grimly scenes in `Battle of the Planets` but for me the worst is at the end of `Vacation on Venus` (Notice in their universe they have terraformed Venus...Which means its a long way into the future and folk are pigheaded enough to try.) Zark is taking about the poor hero, (Whos name I cant recall) and how sad it is the Spectrans killed his family. Zark then tells us the poor guy will be happy soon as he will get a new family. (Big intake of breath.) Yikes, I hate Zark now (Someone I have always been prepared to tolerate) However this got me thinking...to a robot, things like families might be replacable, might they? With this world view, what he said makes a lot of sense, chilling as it may be. So how do robots fit in the Federation? are they free agents, or property? How does this fit with the federation view of Spectras human slaves? What happens if a Robot runs away?

Is it just me or do the names all look like they are from Inquisitors in Warhammer 40K? All that faux greek and neolatin?

A popular 80s series from 2000AD comic...but this hardback reprint is from Eagle Comics. Its colourised and that might be less than satisfying. In the far far future, Earth is ruled by the evil overlord Torquemada, who takes his hatred of aliens to the stars. Only Nemesis the Warlock, a frightening creature from the Netherworlds dares to defy him. This is a scifi and swords and sorcery romp, devotees might recognise a similarity with Warhammer 40K (Pat Mills, the writer, worked on `Rogue Trader`) The art is well imagined and very distinctive, from Nemesis`s familiar Grobbendonk, Nemesis`s clothing (The full gamut from baroque armour to naked to leather jacket and jeans.) the spiky armour of the enemy, the bizzare biology of Nemesis and his fellow Warlocks, some delightfully imagined aliens and his human girlfriend, Purity Brown. (With a name like that you would have to run off with some alien who thinks G-E-N-I-T-A-L spells V-E-H-I-C-L-E...) (Puritys clothing ranges from saintly crusader to chaos cultist) The plot is more than a simple rant against intolerance...Torquemada has good reason to hate aliens, and some aliens are dark and dangerous...Nemesis is an arch anarchist, dangerous and a very grey guy. (And an absolute maniac on the road to boot.) He is a hero amung aliens and has friends all over...But when we see him at home "Nemesis lives in a cave, spends all his time saving the galaxy from those silly humans, and he has no money." is one dismissal of him...He is a prophet who is not respected. He has to rethink his aims several times, from the care free road hog at the begining, to the respected leader of the Alien alliance, to the thwarted family man. (Nemesis`s family problems can be heartbreaking, and at the end all he has left is poor Purity, who we suspect has nowhere else to go..."You dont know how much it hurts to be called `Alien lover`" Torquemadas family problems are heartbreaking too, not least because of his obsession with alien killing. This is probably his worst crime. There are times when we cheer for the masked monster too.) and, at the end, Nemesis has to question just what victory means to him. This is a very good book but its certainly not the whole story...only about the first third...But this series has been reprinted in trade paperbacks several times. Credo

[EMAIL=http://jalopnik.com/u-s-builds-first-giant-robo-suit-immediately-challeng-1715147181]http://jalopnik.com/u-s-builds-first-giant-robo-suit-immediately-challeng-1715147181[/EMAIL] As usual I cannot post links... [URL]http://jalopnik.com/u[/URL]-s-builds-first-giant-robo-suit-immediately-challeng-1715147181 Does this work?